Cooperative Agreement F12AC00277

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The Alaska Department of Fish & Game received a $164,450 cooperative agreement from the Department of the Interior's Office of Subsistence Management under the Alaska Subsistence Management program (CFDA 15.636) for the period July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026. The project documents traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) from residents of Ambler, Noorvik, and Kotzebue regarding changes in salmon distribution, abundance, migration, and timing in the...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $200,000 Tribal Wildlife Grant (CFDA 15.639) to the Chickaloon Native Village for a 12-month Matanuska Watershed Historical and Contemporary Salmon Research Project beginning on January 1, 2025. The project aims to: 1) describe salmon run timing, enumeration, and species composition in Moose Creek using foot surveys; 2) quantify juvenile salmon abundance in Premier Creek prior to restoration work; 3) perform a fish health survey in Moose Creek; 4)...

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game was awarded a $179,540 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Alaska Subsistence Management program (CFDA 15.636) to document contemporary salmon harvest and use patterns in Manokotak, Alaska. Over the three-year period from April 2022 to December 2025, ADF&G will collaborate with the Bristol Bay Native Association and Manokotak Nunaniq School to administer a comprehensive household harvest survey, conduct key respondent...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through its Tribal Wildlife Grants program (CFDA 15.639), awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to the Native Village of Eyak (doing business as Ilanka Clinic) located in Cordova, Alaska. The grant funding will support two years of operational activities for the tribe's fisheries program, including: Estimating the 2024 and 2025 in-river abundance of Copper River Chinook salmon within 25% of the true value 95% of the time. Enumerating the daily passage of sockeye...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 7 awarded the University of Calgary $186,865 on June 1, 2025, under the Fish and Wildlife Coordination and Assistance Program (CFDA 15.664) to develop novel methods for differentiating coastal Western Alaskan chum salmon stocks. This two-year cooperative agreement, in collaboration with the Sitka Sound Science Center and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, addresses critical management challenges resulting from recent...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Tribal Wildlife Grants (CFDA 15.639) program provides $200,000 to the Sitka Tribe of Alaska to install AI-enabled video chutes to automate real-time monitoring of sockeye salmon at Redoubt Lake in Southeast Alaska. The goal is to generate accurate in-season salmon counts at a lower cost than traditional manual monitoring, enabling the tribe to manage subsistence and commercial harvest regulations more effectively. Sitka...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The Alaska Department of Fish & Game received a $214,951 Cooperative Agreement from the Department of the Interior (Interior Business Center) under the Alaska Subsistence Management program (CFDA 15.636) for the period July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026. This award supports the continuation of the Kuskokwim River Subsistence Salmon Fishery monitoring project, which has operated since 1988 to track subsistence salmon harvests across approximately 27...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) provides $3,000,000 to the Chickaloon Native Village in Alaska to restore natural hydrologic and ecological function in the Moose Creek watershed. The key objectives of this 5-year project are to: 1) design salmon habitat restoration for up to 5 miles of the upper Moose Creek watershed, 2) implement Phase 1 of salmon habitat restoration by reducing velocity barriers,...

Cooperative Agreement Summary The U.S. Forest Service, Alaska Region awarded a Cooperative Agreement totaling $256,896 to the Chilkoot Indian Association on June 9, 2026, under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) Agreements program (CFDA 10.702). This five-year agreement, extending through June 8, 2031, supports collaborative monitoring of eulachon fish populations in Northern Southeast Alaska. The primary products and services include field-based assessment and...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The Alaska Department of Fish & Game received a $149,699 Cooperative Agreement from the Department of the Interior's Interior Business Center under the Alaska Subsistence Management program (CFDA 15.636), awarded July 1, 2025, with completion targeted for March 31, 2026. This award supports continued operation of a weir facility on the George River in the Kuskokwim River drainage to monitor and index Chinook, chum, and coho salmon escapement. The weir...